Typographical Antiquities
Or, The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland
Joseph Ames author William Herbert editor Thomas Frognall Dibdin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:19th Mar '15
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A four-volume work on the early history of printing, based on earlier books, and published between 1810 and 1819.
This four-volume work on the early history of printing, published between 1810 and 1819, was enlarged by Thomas Frognall Dibdin from the previous works of Joseph Ames and William Herbert. The lives of Ames and Herbert are followed by discussions of printers from Caxton to Thomas Hacket in the late 1500s.When this work was published, its original author had been dead for fifty years. As the title page explains, the work of Joseph Ames (1687–1759) was considerably augmented by William Herbert (1718–95), and then 'greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), several of whose other works are also reissued in this series. Ames' history of printing, based on his own collection, was published in 1749, as an aid to booksellers in identifying old works (and modern forgeries). Herbert, a printseller and bibliophile, acquired Ames' own interleaved copy of the work and intended to enlarge it, but died having completed only three of six proposed volumes. His working copies then passed to Dibdin, who eventually published this four-volume edition between 1810 and 1819. Volume 4 considers the lives and work of printers from Reynold Wolfe to Thomas Hacket.
ISBN: 9781108077163
Dimensions: 296mm x 210mm x 33mm
Weight: 1580g
640 pages